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What Was Life Like in the USSR?
Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was ...
Serge Schmemann: A secret cable and a clue to where U.S-Russia relations went wrong
What went awry? Putin is the main culprit for Russia’s return to authoritarianism, aggression and hostility to the West. But ...
Putin is repeating a Soviet-era mistake that tanked the Russian economy, Polish foreign minister says
Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating ...
The controversial diary of a Finnish woman lured by the dream of Soviet Russia that turned into a nightmare
A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety ...
What was the first American album to be officially released in the USSR?
Rock music was placed under heavy restrictions in the USSR during the Cold War, but, in 1988, the regime allowed Bon Jovi to ...
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Was the USSR a Colonial Power?
The idea of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (USSR) as a colonial power remains a contentious issue. During the Cold ...
The block of land in Europe owned by Russia - despite being 270 miles from rest of country
Kaliningrad Oblast is the westernmost point of the Russian Federation. It is a semi-enclave on the Baltic Sea beside Poland ...
Russia's having problems with its newest ICBM. It drove away critical Ukrainian missile expertise.
Russia used to rely on Ukrainian expertise for its missile programs, but its actions in 2014 and beyond ended that ...
For Generations, Russia Was Syria’s Main Arms Supplier, That May Be Over
It already appears evident that the days of Russia serving as its leading arms supplier have come to an ignominious end.
World champion Russian skaters on American Airlines jet built a new life as coaches in the US
Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out ...
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Kremlin disputes Trump’s remarks on Soviet role in World War II
Figures given by US president on Soviet losses during World War II do not correspond to official data from Russian historians ...